On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote: > This is the 3rd version of patches implementing Linux kernel support for > the 64-bit ARM architecture. Most of the review comments for the > previous release have been implemented. There are a few left (like > generic timer dts specification) but the main goal was to freeze the > user ABI. > > The Linux kernel patches are available on this tree: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64.git upstream > > Main changes since the previous version: > - ptrace interface now using regsets for TLS and hardware debug > registers. > - sys_personality fixes. PER_LINUX is the default for all tasks (32 or > 64-bit) and there is no compat_sys_personality defined. > - Kconfig clean-up (unused symbols, AARCH32_EMULATION removed in favour > of COMPAT). > - Clean-up of the __cpuc_* function prefixes. > - CPU information table implemented in C rather than assembly. > - __bad_* function calls replaced with BUILD_BUG. > - Inline get_user/put_user (code cleaner, slightly bigger kernel Image). > - DMA API implementation simplified, defaulting to swiotlb. It will be > extended as hardware becomes available. > - Arch-specific code in the generic timer patch moved to arch/arm64/. > - Comment fixes and clarifications. For those patches in this series I didn't comment on already: Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx> Small nit: please s/nico@xxxxxxx/nico@xxxxxxxxxxx/. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
